MY 10,000× DIMENSIONAL SYSTEM - Chapter 201

Chapter 201: Conclusion I
Conclusion I

Jenny watched the last creature fall just as the timer elapsed and she completed the trial on the mountain. However, she felt no sense of achievement and just looked at everything coldly.

When she told her people to stay back, she began speedrunning the different trials as she wanted to get to the central area as quickly as possible.

One might call her impulsive. After all, she saw what Arbiters were capable of. What did she think would happen if she decided to go against one right now?

However, she had her preparations. Whether they would be enough was another matter, but she had sufficient confidence in herself and her preparations.

Without wasting any time, she jumped down from the mountain to break through the next barrier. She spared Vazar and Constella a brief thought and wondered how they were doing. She had a feeling that they were still moving with their various forces, but judging by their personalities, she assumed that Vazar would be the closest to the center, but she couldn’t be too certain.

Shaking her head, she put her hand on the barrier and a pulse of Mana shattered a hole just big enough for her to pass through.

***

In the end, Constella decided to continue. At this point, going back would be pointless, so she threw caution to the wind and went forward with her people, deciding to reach the center as quickly as possible. Adopting the ‘whatever happens happens’ mindset.

That didn’t mean her fear was alleviated, but she decided to stop being a coward and face whatever it was that was the source of her fear.

Her logic? Well, she intended to keep growing stronger, and at some point, that meant coming into contact with certain entities and powers, many of which were bound to be beyond her understanding. In cases like those, she’d be forced to make decisions and take certain risks that could make or break her.

If she didn’t start now, then her progress in the future would be stunted severely. Did she like it? No. She’d much rather wait out the entire thing, but besides the obvious horror that was the Arbiter, she couldn’t get go of this nagging feeling that Vazar was up to something.

If the Arbiter truly didn’t set his sights on them and left after doing whatever he was doing, she had a sinking feeling that whatever Vazar would do wouldn’t end well. It was just a gut feeling, but she wasn’t one to ignore such feelings, especially when it came to Vazar and Jenny.

As she watched the timer reach halfway and how her people were handling the tide of monsters running up the mountain with medium difficulty, she couldn’t help but sigh. Hopefully, she wouldn’t regret this.

***

Vazar’s mind continued to roam as his people dealt with the monsters coming up the mountain. His earlier confidence had all but shattered.

The words of his master kept repeating in his mind.

‘Vazar, if you ever come across an entity known as a Primordial Arbiter. Whatever it is you were doing, regardless of how important it is or how urgent, abandon it and run.’ He felt like he was at an impasse.

On one hand, he felt like he was so close to his goal. He just needed that final push and he would succeed. If he did, then nothing else would matter.

But on the other hand, even the slightest bit of carelessness would get him killed. If that happened, then everything would be pointless.

He simply couldn’t fathom why an Arbiter would be in the hidden realm. He considered that maybe they wanted the same thing as him, the soul of a Paragon, but if that was the case, why take so long? They had been in the hidden realm for quite some time, and they had been close to the center before him and anyone else as well. They could have gotten what they wanted and left at any point in time, yet they hadn’t.

Were they simply here to have fun? Or perhaps fight whatever it was that released that horrid screech? He couldn’t put it past them. After all, of the few things he’d learned about Arbiters over the years, one of them was that Arbiters tend to be random in their actions and they rarely have a fixed goal, usually just doing whatever benefits them.

He didn’t put too much faith in that information. He translated it as being on a different wavelength of thinking and performing your actions in a way that seemed haphazard to others but entirely logical to the one carrying out the action.

Still, that didn’t answer any of his questions. All he knew was that there was an Arbiter in this place, and he needed to decide whether or not potentially antagonizing them was worth it.

In the end, he decided to continue his objective, but he wouldn’t underestimate the threat in any way possible.

He was hoping to secure the soul of the Paragon as quickly as possible and use it as a deterrent, though he doubted it would be very effective.

He also assumed that they already knew of his goals and other things about him. It wasn’t a pleasant thought, but again, he didn’t put it past them to be aware of him and what he was doing.

However, it gave him a minuscule amount of hope that maybe, just maybe, if they knew about him and his actions, then the fact they hadn’t done anything to stop him, at least not directly, meant that they possibly weren’t interested, but he didn’t place much faith in the idea.

With that decided, he and his people broke past the barrier to go through to the last area.

***

Christopher reappeared in front of the barrier, however, Azure wasn’t with him this time and Prism remained within the various reflections.

He spent a little time getting used to his new strength which consisted of him getting jumped and then flooring his subordinates again. After which, he returned the strongholds to their original spots along with the soldiers.

After the upgrade, the already incredible artifacts had become even more potent, and he did not doubt that they would be fine too. He was also amused by how he made the various Vassal clans part of his subordinates. Their confusion despite the new loyalty was always fun to see.

But now, he decided that it was time to end everything.

He didn’t even make any gestures to the barriers, he simply willed it to open up for him and it did so without any suspense, his authority at work.

When he passed through, he was greeted with quite the sight.

It looked like a small town made entirely of ice. Buildings, roads, and so on. The place wasn’t too big, about the size of a medium-sized town, but it was well organized and planned out.

Moreover, the structure of the buildings seemed both basic but also strangely endearing to look at, and the ice Mana in the air was dense but gentle.

The ice that made up the buildings wasn’t simple either. He couldn’t ascertain their origins, but he knew that every bit of it as well as the snow on the ground could be considered to be extremely valuable.

‘This must be where Azure and her peers lived.’ Christopher mused.

The most eye-catching thing was the Pagoda that stood in the center of the town. It wasn’t massive, but it was easily the tallest structure in the town.

Christopher’s intuition told him that was the end goal.

Then his gaze shifted a bit. Slightly below the Pagoda off to the side was what looked like a mansion, from which he felt a familiar Aura that made him narrow his eyes.

The Warden. He could still feel that the wound he inflicted was ailing it. Good.

‘Guess I made it first in the end.’ He rubbed his chin as he thought, a small part of him happy that he didn’t keep hitting his mask like a dumbass anymore.

He took a few steps forward, but it was like he was teleporting, and he very quickly crossed the distance between the barrier and the town, but before he set foot into it, he paused.

Then he turned around.

‘They finally made it huh?’ He thought as he observed the three groups. Well, two groups and one person on their own.

They noticed him about the same time he noticed them, and for a moment, everything was quiet and no one moved.

Seeing this, Christopher decided to speak.

“Hello the-” Before the words could leave his mouth, a beam of blue fire as thick as a building engulfed him and everything behind him. The heat causing space to visibly melt and the air to evaporate as whatever was in the path of the fire was utterly devastated.

Luckily, the beam had hit from an angle, so the buildings were spared.

Everyone looked at Jenny with shock and horror as a rift which the beam had come from closed behind her, her eyes cold.

“Well, that wasn’t very nice.” Christopher said, his body completely unharmed and his tone the same as before.

He looked at all of them, from the pale Constella to the grim Vazar to the cold Jenny.

“So I’m assuming a fight is what you want?”

***

A/N: I made a mistake, skip the next chapter and read the one after it before coming back to it, I scrambled them by accident.